Me and 3 friends decided to farm the 50 runs and 4 whistles dropped within 35 runs. No I'm not joking and no I still can't believe it either. I think all four of us combined ran out of a lifetime worth of luck there lmao
I started my farming run this morning using party finder. The whistle literally drops after the third fight.......I didn't get it, but after seeing it, my hopes skyrocketed. 47 fights later, I never saw it drop again, but hey, Im not flying on the most beautiful mount in the game, imo. Can't believe I grinded that in one day, and I went to work today too! Lol.
Watching this while playing a ton of Rise lately and watching content for that... this feels more like a Monster Hunter guide than I expected, ironically.
Me and some friends farmed Rathalos a couple months ago and decided to make it our mission to get sub 2 minutes. Think our best time ended up being 1:56. It took quite a few runs to get haha
Gotta say, thing I figured on release that helped me, that first faze "If he looks at you, just run away" might not be the best advice, I just opt for the "Stand on his left foot", if he does a small steppy step, that's the only time you have to move from there, just move out before his jump and you're good. This just makes it less messy to chase and stuff because he spends more time turning to you and he doesn't charge far when he does. Might not work so well on casters when they're needing to cast
This is very helpful information. I haven't even consider trying for it because I normally don't do extremes. But this sync strat I feel like even I can pull off with a few good friends.
my record is 1:40 This with only MCH, 2 SAM, and BLM, so basically only MCH target tail the rest is the body, leave the tail at low HP if there's still like 7 seconds, then kill it at 3 second there you go. also we did it back before 510+ ilvl gear exsist
Thanks for the guide :) When I saw I needed 50 scales I was like "yeaaaah forget it... got other stuff to do..." , but now... this actually looks doable...
The very run that I said the whistle is like a .001% drop to a new person joining the PF is the very run it dropped. Needless to say, I passed due to shame and the newbie got it on their first run. On that note, this grind really isn't that bad. You don't have to get every scale in a day, and you get an average of 15 scales an hour.
The accounts of the fight are straight forward but they must have changed the encounter a bit. Never in my 50 plus times of this fight (since i earned the mount and got stuck in this fight many times after due to mentor roulettes) did I see all the smaller adds along with the buffalo. I also know that the buffalo cleaves and never saw a DPS yet that could take that cleave. Any physical attack or fire attack puts a dot on you which usually takes a good 1/4 to 1/3 of your hp's and there are no "cure" properties to your healing potions. So if you bypassing the whole need for a tank and healer there must have been a change to things. The higher i level or the fight itself. Perhaps it was the adding of the unsynced option but clearly the fight now as you show it is not like how it used to be when I did it.
If we're talking about synced runs, yes, all your points apply. The fight itself, to my knowledge, has never been nerfed/adjusted in any way. If you're doing this unsync at 80, you don't even need to stack for the stack-marker in the second phase, you just need to pop a pot after the second hit, or if you're especially squishy, after every hit. Unless you farmed this while it was still relevant content, you just absolutely hate yourself, or you misplace your faith in the "increased" dropchance from minimum Ilvl runs, there is literally no reason to NOT farm this unsync.
@@Emibunns True, but mentor roulettes don't offer you that option. I've yet to be put in any dungeon or trial that was uncynched. Even the level 50 beginner trials of Garuda, Titan and Ifriti.
Man, gear really carries, huh xD I got all my stuff from him when the fight was new and even back then we quickly figured out that directly destroying the tail is not a good idea and to focus on Rathalos first to get in more dmg before the tail destruction, but him going back up once was unavoidable, just due to the maximum dmg at lvl 70.
The whistle does not exist, i repeat the whistle does not exist people. Anyone coming around to watch this video now don't get your hopes up thinking it's gonna drop within 50 runs. DO NOT BUY THE POOGIE OR THE ORCHESTRION ROLL EITHER. You will get them like 4-5 times by the time you reach 50 High Rank scales. No one has confirmation, but it definitely has like a 2-3% drop rate compared to like what.. the 5% that a normal mount drop is? It would make sense that they'd make it as much as a Rathalos Ruby carved from the tail drop rate is in Monster Hunter World, which is around 2%. Because they've basically halved the chances from a normal Trial mount, I suspect that's why you also only need 50 of an item rather than the typical 99. In short, save your scales, and the drop rate is shockingly low. I didn't see it once in my 50 runs where my luck usually nets several mounts from other trials.
I queue up as a healer for this and i can't match up. What the freaking freak? If i only had 3 more people willing to farm the mount and the augmented armor set with me... 😞
You generally don't want to qeue in duty finder for stuff like this. Best to go into party finder, or do it solo unsynced if you think you can manage it (though it will take longer)
If you're having a hard time dodging attacks pick high mobility like Dancer. It's basically just super man diving out of most stuff. I would only use low mobility classes if it's a tank to mitigate damage or you've farmed this bastard for years in MH and know his attack patterns by heart to know where to avoid all attacks.
So u r telling me that 4 top-notch ffxiv players are not as strong as my mhw character? interesting... now the main question is... how can I import my mhw character into ffxiv? also, this rathalos died with his tail attached to his body,,, I always cut the tail early on
You lost me on "friends" 😭 but as of patch 6.4, I was able to solo this as a MCH - got up to 44 scales until the mount dropped, so ended with dyeable glamour instead 😁
i only have a level 80 healer and i was doing this with friends in 2:15 flat, this dps logic makes everyone kick healers and i hate it, what did us healers ever do to you??
Very nice find. Thanks for sharing it .But extremes (synced) normally need 99 kills to buy a mount and can range from 9 to 12 minutes with a good team. Imagine Shinryu, Sephirot, and Niddhog extremes synced. True difficulty. Personally, I believe they should kept The Great Hunt sync mandatory as many players now don't get the full experience of that grind. For a long while it was synced. 4.3 is when it was changed I believe.
i feel like ppl in the comment section or ff14 players in general dont know what a "real" grinding is... being worried about 50 kills... thats nothing. i see that a lot in ff14, ppl say something is the biggest grind and its just not, at least not to my "standards" from other mmos. in other mmos, im used to grind things 500 times or even 1000 times with no rewards and no "totems" or "scales" to get it eventually. now, playing ff14, grinding in this game is like a walk in the park for me, its amazing. btw, dont take offense to it, this is just my experience and its actually a good thing, that ppl think things like rathalos is grindy, its good to have a game that doesnt force you to spend hundreds of hours to get something.
It kind of is, but the specifics aren't explained. When Rathalos enters his second phase he gets a damage taken reduction buff, but when he goes down that buff DISAPPEARS. He'll take more damage, and THEN when the tail is cut he takes a chunk of his health as damage too. The aim is to do this unsynced because it's faster anyway, but also to focus on him when he goes down since he takes more damage and then burst the tail at the end of the down phase.
Me and 3 friends decided to farm the 50 runs and 4 whistles dropped within 35 runs. No I'm not joking and no I still can't believe it either.
I think all four of us combined ran out of a lifetime worth of luck there lmao
Congrats! Now you're only roll 30 or less for future drops :(
I started my farming run this morning using party finder. The whistle literally drops after the third fight.......I didn't get it, but after seeing it, my hopes skyrocketed. 47 fights later, I never saw it drop again, but hey, Im not flying on the most beautiful mount in the game, imo. Can't believe I grinded that in one day, and I went to work today too! Lol.
5-10 minutes per hunt eh?
They certainly got the time frame right for Rathalos hunts, I'll give square that.
Hahahahaha, more like 1 hit of a hammer to the head.
Watching this while playing a ton of Rise lately and watching content for that... this feels more like a Monster Hunter guide than I expected, ironically.
Me and some friends farmed Rathalos a couple months ago and decided to make it our mission to get sub 2 minutes. Think our best time ended up being 1:56. It took quite a few runs to get haha
Nice my best time was 2:00 minutes exact
Gotta say, thing I figured on release that helped me, that first faze "If he looks at you, just run away" might not be the best advice, I just opt for the "Stand on his left foot", if he does a small steppy step, that's the only time you have to move from there, just move out before his jump and you're good. This just makes it less messy to chase and stuff because he spends more time turning to you and he doesn't charge far when he does. Might not work so well on casters when they're needing to cast
Yup, this is the advice I would recommend. Stay just behind his left foot at all times and you're gucchi.
I remember when 3 tanks was the easiest way to do it back when it was in that expansion.
Man that’s a good looking Hrothgar.
Ew furry
I started playing it recently and I just saw one of those. I'm a monster hunter fan so I was super excited when I saw him 🤣
Me too. I was like "Wtf... did I just see a Rathalos fly by?"
I thought I was hallucinating the first time I saw one cause I'd just finished helping my freind farm rathalos
This is very helpful information. I haven't even consider trying for it because I normally don't do extremes. But this sync strat I feel like even I can pull off with a few good friends.
my record is 1:40
This with only MCH, 2 SAM, and BLM, so basically only MCH target tail the rest is the body, leave the tail at low HP if there's still like 7 seconds, then kill it at 3 second
there you go. also we did it back before 510+ ilvl gear exsist
Thanks for the guide :) When I saw I needed 50 scales I was like "yeaaaah forget it... got other stuff to do..." , but now... this actually looks doable...
I have helped 3 sets of players get their mount. 150 runs. Only seen Rath in chest 2x. Let that sink in. Thx for guide
Help me please lol
The hitbox on the cow thing is a cylinder, so you don't really have to worry about the way it's facing, it can just look scarier like in this video.
Fine subbed, only cause you asked nicely >.>
Meanwhile I joined a party with a guy who never did it,( I was about 30 runs in at that point) . The mount dropped and he rolled 99. 🙃🤔
Classic ^^
😭✋🏾 lawdy
5:59 I felt this and I agree.
Thanks man. It worked and saved us a lot of time.
I found MCH to be really good for this boss too
Thanks, I'll give this a try later!
The very run that I said the whistle is like a .001% drop to a new person joining the PF is the very run it dropped. Needless to say, I passed due to shame and the newbie got it on their first run.
On that note, this grind really isn't that bad. You don't have to get every scale in a day, and you get an average of 15 scales an hour.
How can I find a cool group of friends to play with? I’m still in heavensward but want friends to play with and perhaps guide me a bit
join FC
Can this be done with 4 BLU's? I have a feeling if you can I'd be easier
I’ve currently accumulated 30 +scales. And I’m not stopping anytime soon.
Haha thanks for the guide man, hilarious and detail one im searching for 🌟
The accounts of the fight are straight forward but they must have changed the encounter a bit. Never in my 50 plus times of this fight (since i earned the mount and got stuck in this fight many times after due to mentor roulettes) did I see all the smaller adds along with the buffalo. I also know that the buffalo cleaves and never saw a DPS yet that could take that cleave. Any physical attack or fire attack puts a dot on you which usually takes a good 1/4 to 1/3 of your hp's and there are no "cure" properties to your healing potions. So if you bypassing the whole need for a tank and healer there must have been a change to things. The higher i level or the fight itself. Perhaps it was the adding of the unsynced option but clearly the fight now as you show it is not like how it used to be when I did it.
i mean if you didnt do it unsynced then its a big big diference
If we're talking about synced runs, yes, all your points apply. The fight itself, to my knowledge, has never been nerfed/adjusted in any way. If you're doing this unsync at 80, you don't even need to stack for the stack-marker in the second phase, you just need to pop a pot after the second hit, or if you're especially squishy, after every hit.
Unless you farmed this while it was still relevant content, you just absolutely hate yourself, or you misplace your faith in the "increased" dropchance from minimum Ilvl runs, there is literally no reason to NOT farm this unsync.
@@Emibunns True, but mentor roulettes don't offer you that option. I've yet to be put in any dungeon or trial that was uncynched. Even the level 50 beginner trials of Garuda, Titan and Ifriti.
What's a fast "enough" GCD for this purpose?
1:59 wait.....
YOU CAN FUCKING MOUNT THE RATHALOS??? WHY HAVENT I SEEN THIS BEFORE?
I actually got the mount on my 43rd clear last year....
Great video 🎉
Your gonna hate me then, I got the mount on my first run via chest drop 😂😂😂😂
But I have shared your video so please don’t hate me too much 😊
I had the mount dropped on the 47th-48th run, was so disappointed I just passed it and got the few more clears I needed...
Ending to the video is legit.
What about a grp of BLU?
Man, gear really carries, huh xD
I got all my stuff from him when the fight was new and even back then we quickly figured out that directly destroying the tail is not a good idea and to focus on Rathalos first to get in more dmg before the tail destruction, but him going back up once was unavoidable, just due to the maximum dmg at lvl 70.
I watched this for the kitty pic
The whistle does not exist, i repeat the whistle does not exist people. Anyone coming around to watch this video now don't get your hopes up thinking it's gonna drop within 50 runs. DO NOT BUY THE POOGIE OR THE ORCHESTRION ROLL EITHER. You will get them like 4-5 times by the time you reach 50 High Rank scales.
No one has confirmation, but it definitely has like a 2-3% drop rate compared to like what.. the 5% that a normal mount drop is? It would make sense that they'd make it as much as a Rathalos Ruby carved from the tail drop rate is in Monster Hunter World, which is around 2%. Because they've basically halved the chances from a normal Trial mount, I suspect that's why you also only need 50 of an item rather than the typical 99.
In short, save your scales, and the drop rate is shockingly low. I didn't see it once in my 50 runs where my luck usually nets several mounts from other trials.
Gonna try PF to get 3 players. Hopefully they won’t quit once they get lucky with their roll for the whistle
I queue up as a healer for this and i can't match up. What the freaking freak?
If i only had 3 more people willing to farm the mount and the augmented armor set with me... 😞
You generally don't want to qeue in duty finder for stuff like this. Best to go into party finder, or do it solo unsynced if you think you can manage it (though it will take longer)
If you're having a hard time dodging attacks pick high mobility like Dancer. It's basically just super man diving out of most stuff. I would only use low mobility classes if it's a tank to mitigate damage or you've farmed this bastard for years in MH and know his attack patterns by heart to know where to avoid all attacks.
i just got the flute after 2 runs with a roll of 31 my luck must be spent for eternity now
I reckon a full team of well geared ninjas and monks that know what to do could probably do super speedy runs of this
what chest?
Playing a class you're comfy with is really the best. A good "off meta" player is better than a terrible "meta" one.
Huh??? This is still in the game??? I thought it was a limited time event??
Only the Monster Hunter World half was a timed event. And that's only because Events rotate in that game. It would come back every now and then.
@@Kasaaz no, Behemoth was a special assignment, Extremoth, however, was an event but iirc late last year all the events were made permanent
@@zacross8504 Ahh, gotcha. Thanks :D
Me with item lvl 90 watching this
the flute dropped after 10 runs for me loool
So u r telling me that 4 top-notch ffxiv players are not as strong as my mhw character?
interesting... now the main question is... how can I import my mhw character into ffxiv?
also, this rathalos died with his tail attached to his body,,, I always cut the tail early on
You don't need to mount Rathalos btw... Just hit the mammoth so hard that he hits the floor by the time Rathalos flies off.
just drink mega demon drug
Got mine months ago..it was a grind lol
You lost me on "friends" 😭 but as of patch 6.4, I was able to solo this as a MCH - got up to 44 scales until the mount dropped, so ended with dyeable glamour instead 😁
not a bad video but your a bit late m8 cuz the farming parties i'v been in have said the same thing you just did/show
They dropped the number of scales used to be 99
great guide
21 more runs for my one
i only have a level 80 healer and i was doing this with friends in 2:15 flat, this dps logic makes everyone kick healers and i hate it, what did us healers ever do to you??
Generally healer are useless at phase 2 and most of their dps are alot lower( other then whm ofcause)
I mean even in phase one tanks and healers are useless here
Very nice find. Thanks for sharing it .But extremes (synced) normally need 99 kills to buy a mount and can range from 9 to 12 minutes with a good team. Imagine Shinryu, Sephirot, and Niddhog extremes synced. True difficulty. Personally, I believe they should kept The Great Hunt sync mandatory as many players now don't get the full experience of that grind. For a long while it was synced. 4.3 is when it was changed I believe.
I rolled 2
I’m gonna be “that guy”. I got the mount as a drop in my first 4 clears.
Dayum now that's lucky. Took me around 30 clears (would have gotten the mount by 50 if I didn't spend the first few scales on dyeable glam)
You’ve actually seen the mount drop? Is that even possible?
@@phoenixflamegames1 Yes, I have.
Nice! I get to bring my futon with me
i feel like ppl in the comment section or ff14 players in general dont know what a "real" grinding is... being worried about 50 kills... thats nothing. i see that a lot in ff14, ppl say something is the biggest grind and its just not, at least not to my "standards" from other mmos. in other mmos, im used to grind things 500 times or even 1000 times with no rewards and no "totems" or "scales" to get it eventually. now, playing ff14, grinding in this game is like a walk in the park for me, its amazing.
btw, dont take offense to it, this is just my experience and its actually a good thing, that ppl think things like rathalos is grindy, its good to have a game that doesnt force you to spend hundreds of hours to get something.
Wish it didn't shrink
How to farm old content fast: do it unsync. And here i thought this was gonna be some neat trivia about fight specific mechanics...
It kind of is, but the specifics aren't explained.
When Rathalos enters his second phase he gets a damage taken reduction buff, but when he goes down that buff DISAPPEARS. He'll take more damage, and THEN when the tail is cut he takes a chunk of his health as damage too. The aim is to do this unsynced because it's faster anyway, but also to focus on him when he goes down since he takes more damage and then burst the tail at the end of the down phase.
So there's no point to this video just dps ? What were you thinking ?
nerd ❤️
Why ff14 got this easy ass monster you should get a rajang or a kushala for giving us that behemoth bullshit
pretty hard dislike at 4:40